Louis Moreau-Lislet

Louis Moreau-Lislet was born in Dondon, Saint-Domingue, on October 7, 1766, and studied law in Paris. He prosecuted in the colony, spent about a year in Cuba and reached New Orleans in 1804, where he first translated for the territorial legislature. In 1806 he and James Brown of Kentucky were chosen to draft the Digest of 1808, and in 1822 he was named to the commission for the 1825 code. He also served as a judge, legislator and attorney general. Scholars still dispute whether the Digest is basically Spanish or French. He died poor in 1832.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 — steps away
  New Orleans' oldest surviving city of the dead, opened in 1789 after the fire of 1788 and the burial place of Homer Plessy, reachable only on a guided tour since March 2015.
• Congo Square — 0.2 mi
  The 2.35-acre corner of Louis Armstrong Park where, from 1817, New Orleans confined Sunday dancing by enslaved people to one place, and where crowds of hundreds gathered to drum, dance and trade.
• The Historic New Orleans Collection — 0.4 mi
  A French Quarter museum and research center founded in 1966, whose 2015 Purchased Lives exhibition took on New Orleans' place as the largest slave market in antebellum America.
• The Cabildo — 0.5 mi
  The Spanish town hall on Jackson Square, finished in 1799, where Louisiana changed flags in 1803 and where the state Supreme Court sat in the same room until 1910, Plessy v. Ferguson among its cases.

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• Ernest Nathan "Dutch" Morial — steps away
• Barthélémy Lafon — steps away
• General Humbert — steps away